A ten-year rival in love

"I'm sorry." Li Xu couldn't think of anything other than this sentence. He kept saying sorry, but the guilt in his heart was endlessly superimposed.

But apart from this sentence, he couldn't say anything.

Sorry for not being able to start a family and have children the way you hoped.

I'm sorry that I can't be a well-behaved and obedient son.

Sorry for uncovering your scars again like a father.

In the end, I became a person who let you down, I am really sorry.

"...Who is it?" Mother Li supported the wall behind her, and reluctantly asked, "Is that Lu Hui? He brought you into this?"

Li Xu shook his head: "It has nothing to do with him, I just fell in love with him..."

Li's mother fell to the ground, the muffled sound shook Li Xu's eardrums.He raised his eyes slightly, and saw his mother's face covered with tears, and her eyes were sore again.

"Evil... evil!" Li's mother covered her face with her hand and almost cried bitterly, "I should know, I should know... You evil..."

Li Xu went forward to support her, but was thrown away by her, his heart ached, and he could only cry with Li's mother.

"I'm sorry, Mom, I'm sorry." Li Xu seemed to really only be able to say this sentence, "I'm sorry."

Li's mother cried more and more sadly, she leaned against the wall as if she could fall down at any time, her drooping shoulders seemed so weak, her mournful cry seemed so abrupt and desperate in this joyous festival.

His stepfather, Yin Yecheng, pushed open the door, frowned and looked at the mother and son in the room, and said in a calm voice, "It's Chinese New Year, what are you doing?"

Li Xu still lowered his head, he couldn't speak at all right now, he hadn't shed tears properly for many years, his tear gate couldn't be closed all at once.Yin Yecheng walked up to Li's mother and helped Li's mother up, she hung on his arm as if she had no bones, buried in his arms, and burst into tears.

"Uncle Yin..." Li Xu said hoarsely.

Yin Yecheng didn't understand the situation, but he understood that now was not the time to talk. He hugged his wife in his arms and said to Li Xu who was kneeling on the ground: "Get up, I'll take your mother back to the room first."

Li Xu watched the two old people leave, but he couldn't stand up. If his mother could forgive him, he would rather break his legs.

But it can't, it can't, just like Yin Huishan and Yin Yecheng's quarrel turned upside down at the beginning, and now he has put the relatives who have been put first in the past 29 years, and they have been hurt badly.

Even if he apologizes with death now, he can't make up for it.

It's his fault?Whose fault is it?He loved a man, there should be nothing wrong with that.Who is wrong?

Lu Hui finally found an opportunity to escape during the carnival night, and immediately stepped on the spot to call Li Xu.Contrary to what he expected, Li Xu paused for a long time before answering the phone, and did not speak after he answered it, as if he was waiting for him to speak first.

"Happy New Year dear!" Lu Hui said, "How was the New Year's Eve dinner?"

"..." Li Xu replied carefully, "Well, happy new year."

Lu Hui sensed something was wrong with his voice, and couldn't help but jump in his heart: "What's wrong?"

"It's okay." Li Xu's voice was still very low and nasal, "I seem to have caught a cold."

Something must have happened.Lu Hui immediately concluded that Li Xu had told about the two of them: "Did your mother know?"

"..." After a long and suffocating silence, Li Xu suddenly said, "Lu Hui."

"Yeah." Lu Hui's breathing was a little unsteady, and an inexplicable panic surrounded him, "I'm here."

Li Xu sniffed: "Say you love me."

"I love you." Lu Hui breathed a sigh of relief, he squeezed the phone tightly, and repeated: "I love you."

"Say it again."

"I love you."

"Say it again."

"I love you."

"..." Li Xu seemed to be crying again. Lu Hui had never seen him cry before, and his heart was constricted by the vague sobs.

"A Xu?" Lu Hui softened his voice, "I'm going to see you, can we talk slowly?"

"No, no no." Li Xu sniffed again, "Don't come over, we don't want to see each other for these two days."

Lu Hui was a little anxious: "Then what should you do?"

Li Xu was silent for a while, then said softly, "I'm sleepy."

Lu Hui also guessed that Li Xu was very tired at the moment, but he couldn't figure out what was going on in Li Xu's mind, so he was still anxious. "Don't think about it, A Xu, you must tell me immediately if you have anything!"

"Well, let my mother calm down first." Li Xu said, "Stop talking, good night."

Lu Hui: "Ah Xu..."

"I love you too." Li Xu interrupted him.

This sentence gave Lu Hui a reassurance. The previous fear and worry about gain and loss suddenly disappeared without a trace, and he smiled. "I know."

"I won't break up with you." Li Xu said, "Don't worry."

Lu Hui squatted on the ground, not knowing whether he should feel ecstasy for Li Xu's firmness or feel distressed for Li Xu's realization of the painful price. He covered his eyes and tried to suppress the sourness in his tone: "I know, you should come sooner." Sleep... good night, baby."

Li Xu answered and ended the call.

How lively and joyful the first half of the night is, how quiet and deserted the second half of the night is.

There seems to be a diffuse sulfur smell in the air, which is slightly pungent to the nose.Li Xu still maintained his original posture. He didn't know how long he had been kneeling, and it was about an hour since Lu Hui's phone call.

He had lost feeling in his legs, but he didn't dare to move casually, as if moving would violate his guilt and anxiety.

Mother must not be asleep, and neither is Lu Hui, who must be tossing and turning thinking about this matter.

So.Would mother hate him?Li Xu thought to himself, probably he would hate him, after all, with the psychological shadow left by his father, maybe he would graft the hatred for his father onto him.

He closed his eyes, and finally couldn't help moving his legs a little. There was a sharp pain in the knee bend, and the whole bone seemed to be smashed into pieces. The dense pain caused him to collapse straight on the ground.

The door creaked, and Yin Yecheng's voice followed the door opening: "Stop kneeling, hurry up...Xu Zi?"

His complexion changed, he stepped forward to help Li Xu who was lying on the ground with a pale face, and asked loudly: "What's wrong? What's going on here?"

Li Xu was in so much pain that he couldn't speak, he bit his lips tightly, covered his knees with both hands, curled up into a ball, his whole body was shaking, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Lin Rong, Lin Rong!" Yin Yecheng shouted to the room over there, "Come here, something is wrong with Xu Zi!"

The doctor sighed a long and helpless breath at the medical record in his hand.

"This is the second time I have entertained him. In the past few months, Lawyer Li has been hospitalized in this hospital three times, each time getting worse."

Li's mother asked in disbelief: "Three times? How is it possible? My son has always been in good health, and he hasn't been to the hospital in recent years!"

"If you don't believe me, you can see for yourself." The doctor said, "I also showed him the leg last month. His leg was severely eroded by the cold, and some muscle tissue was frozen to death. It was his little brother who was here with him." I have been giving him leg massages, and he has had more than half a month of rehabilitation training before he can barely walk."

Mother Li covered her mouth, her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and now there were tears falling down uncontrollably.She could hardly believe that her son had such an experience, leaning in her husband's arms, he didn't recover for a long time.

"What did he do?" Yin Yecheng asked.

"Before we were asked not to notify Lawyer Li's family," the doctor said. "Last month, Lawyer Li was involved in a serial murder case. He was kidnapped by gangsters and imprisoned in an underground freezer for a day and a night."

Lin Rong didn't know about the serial murder case, but Yin Yecheng knew about it.What he didn't expect was that the victim was actually his and Lin Rong's son, because the media didn't provide a detailed report at all, and the TV news simply mentioned it without showing the victim's photo.

"Is that Yang Yannan's corpse hiding case?" Yin Yecheng asked.

"Yes." The doctor said, "Lawyer Li is the only surviving victim, and he also helped the police solve the case. It's amazing."

"Yang... Yannan?" Li's mother looked dull, "Yang Yannan?"

Doctor: "...Yes."

Li's mother screamed out. She was stimulated one after another that night and passed out in Yin Yecheng's arms.Yin Yecheng hurriedly restrained her and forced her to wake up.She grabbed Yin Yecheng's clothes and sobbed, "Old Yin... What crime do you say I did... What crime did I do? Ah? What the hell did I do in my previous life?"

Li Xu woke up from the smell of disinfectant.

He was quite familiar with the smell now, including the now familiar numbness in his legs, which was partly anesthetized.What happened to his legs?Oh... This time I knelt, I don't know if I really broke my knees.

Lying on his bed was his mother.He was startled suddenly and wanted to get up, but he was afraid of waking up his mother, so he looked at her quietly.

My mother was really old, and became very haggard overnight, with a lot of gray hair added to her temples, she didn't look like a woman in her [-]s.

She probably knew everything, Li Xu secretly regretted that she should not have knelt like that, but now it made her mother even more worried.

"I'm sorry." Li Xu whispered again, "I'm sorry, Mom."

The door was opened quietly, Li Xu raised his eyes and saw that it was Lu Hui who came in.

Li Xu's eyes widened.

"Hush..." Lu Hui was also surprised to see that he woke up, put his index finger on his lips, and then pointed to the food bag in his hand.

Followed by his stepfather Yin Yecheng, he obviously also stayed up all night, his eyes were haggard and blue and black.He saw Li's mother in an uncomfortable sleeping position, and bent down to hug her.

Li's mother woke up immediately, and the first thing she said was loudly: "Is Xu Zi awake?"